How to Non Destructively crop for printing

I have photos that I'm not interesting in cropping, but when I print a 4x6, there a little extra space (about 1/2" on either side) that I have to cut off after printing.
I've been looking for a "per instance" crop option in the print prompt, but I can't seem to find it. Instead, I would have to crop the actual pic to 4x6, which I don't want to do.
This is a pretty obvious feature, so I assume it's here and I just can't find it....

Nathan:
Just crop the image in iPhoto to print to the size you want and when the printing is completed use the Photos->Revert to original to delete the modified file and bring the untouched original file back as the default image.

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